Shade-holder.



R. S. ASPINWALL.

SHADE HDLDEB.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 31, 1913.

Patented Nov. 4, 1913.

UNITED STATES PATENT canton.

ROBERT S. ASPINWALL, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE VIRDEN MANUFAC- TUBING- COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

SHADE-HOLDER.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, ROBERT S. ASPINWALL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, county of Cuyahoga, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shade- Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to shade holders, and particularly shade holders adapted for use in connection with lights on illuminating fixtures.

The object of my invention is to provide means for holding a shade in place about a light which is readily adjusted to grasp the shade and which will permit the shade to be easily and promptly removed, at the same time being sightly in appearance and doing away with the small set screws in ordinary use in such devices. To this end I provide a bell or cap surrounding the light socket or stand which engages a ring surrounding the shade. The ring itself is made flexible or elastic so that it may be opened or closed about the base of the shade. Means are provided for holding the ring or band closed about the shade and when in this position the band may be inserted and held in the end of the bell or cap. I may also provide a resilient device in the band to engage the shade at or near the neck and assist in holding it steady.

The annexed drawing and the following description set forth in detail one mechanism embodying my invention.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is an axial section of a shade holder emline IVIV, Fig. 1; Fig. 5 is a plan of a modified form of securing device.

I have shown a globe or shade 1 of the usual construction, provided at one end with a contracted neck portion 4. In globes of standard construction, the outer diameter of the contracted neck-portion varies within certain specified limits, as is well-known to those skilled in the art.

The securing device 2 consists of a ring,

thin sheet metal and one end thereof is open band or collar which may be made of thin Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 31, 1913.

Patented Nov. 4,1913.

Serial No. 770,810.

band-portion of the section 6, is formed with two inwardly and radially extending project-ions 1010, Figs. 2 and 3, and each extremity of the section 5 is formed with an extension 11. Each of these extensions is provided with two apertures 1212 adapted to receive the projections 1010. When the projections and apertures interlock, the

two sections form a cylindrically shaped collar having a continuous and inwardly projecting flange 7 at one end thereof, as shown in Fig. 4.

Upon the interior of each collar-section is a spring-member 14. In the form illustrated this springmember consists of a piece of elastic wire, the center of which is secured by solder 13 at about the center of the collar-section, its ends extending toward the ends of the said section and normally extending inwardly toward the ends of the collar, a distance greater than that to which vsaid flange extends, thereby normally restricting the area of the space surrounded by said collar, as will be readily understood.

The distance to which these spring-members extend is made such that when the device is applied to a standard shade having a contracted neck-port1on of mlnlmum diameter,

the said spring-members will engage said contracted neck-portion and exert pressure against same, the spring-n1embers under these conditions being pressed outwardly from their normal position or position of rest, as shown in Fig. 4.

'Near one end of the extremities of the section 5 of the collar is formed an outwardly extending projection 15 and a similar projection 16 is formed near the other extremity of said section and another also near the corresponding extremity of the other section 6, as shown in Fig. 2.

The bell or cap 3 may also be made of as shown and formed with an inwardly extending flange 17, Fig. 1. The inner diameter of this flange is made substantially equal to the outer diameter of the collar 2 and when the parts are assembled, this flange occupies a position immediately under and engaging the projections 15 and 16 as shown in Fig. 1.

In detaching a shade holder of the above description from a shade such as illustrated in the drawing, the collar is grasped and the band-portion adjacent to the projections 15 pressed inwardly so as to release said projections from the flange 17. In order that the location of this projection may always be apparent, I prefer to impress upon the band-portion the legend Press here Upon such release or disengagement of the projection 15 from said flange, the corresponding side of the top may be detached from the collar whereupon it may be turned on the projections 16 as a hinge as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1 and its removal is readily effected, as will be ap Jarent. The disengagement of the cap rom the collar having thus been efi'ected, the collar is now grasped and the Press here end of the section 5 is then pressed inwardly and laterally so as to disengage the extension 11 from the corresponding end of the other section 6, the projections 10 being thus withdrawn from the apertures 12, as shown in dotted lines at the right of Fig. 1. This disengagement having been effected, the corresponding ends of the two sections may then be swung outwardly, the other projections 10 and 11 acting as a hinge, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 4. After the sections have been separated a short distance as above described, the shade may be removed or the said other rojections 10 may be readily disengaged rom the apertures 12 of the corresponding end of the other section, and the two sections may thus be entirely disengaged and removed from the contracted neck-portion of the shade.

In attaching the device to a shade the reverse of the above described operation takes place, that is the two separate collar-sections are first caused to loosely surround the contracted-neck portion, one of the extensions 11 caused to engage the adjacent projections 10 while the other ends of the sections are disengaged. The latter are then caused to engage by pressing the band-portion of the section 5 inwardly as before, bringing the apertures 12 opposite corresponding projections 10 and then releasing said band-portion, whereupon the interlocle ing of the projections and apertures is effect ed. 1 The tongue 11 may be inclined so that when the two portions 5 and 6 are pressed together the lugs 10 will slide on the tongue 11 and finally fall into place. During this operation the spring-members 14 may be devices.

caused to directly engage the contracted neck-portion and to be slightly displaced from their normal position or position of rest. The collar is thus securely held upon the shade, all rattling and looseness being prevented by the spring-members 14:. The hell 3 is now caused to surround the collar by causing the flange 17 to first engage the two projections 16 by tilting the shade the effect of which is shown by showing the bell in a tilted position, in Fig. 1. By now swinging the shade and bell to a common axis, the flange 17 slides over the projection 15 and snaps into place.

The above described construction of the collar 2 may be modified, as shown in Fig. 5, by omitting one of the sets of projections 10 and the corresponding extension 11 and substituting an ordinary hinge 1S therefor. This construction merely dlifers from the first described construction in that a per- 'manent hinge is provided and the two sec tions of the collar are permanently secured to each other.

corresponding projection 10 acts as a temporary hinge and the two sections may be completely disconnected.

In addition to the interlocking lugs 10 andtongues 11 for holding the collar closed about the shade the bell itself in both forms of the invention shown acts to hold the collar closed as well as supporting it when it has been finally inserted into the bell.

By means of either of the above described constructions, I obtain a simple and efiective the undesirable screws commonly in use.

support reflectors, globes and the like and I use the terms shade and shade holder in In said first described con struction one of the extensions 11 and the their broader sense as including such similar tion one end of which is detachably secured 1 l to the collar, and a bell detachably secured to said collar and upon the outside thereof to support it and hold it closed.

3. In a shade-holder, a securing device comprising a collar having a movable sec tion one end of which is detachably secured to the collar, and yielding devices secured to said collar and normally restricting the,

area of the space surrounded thereby.

4. In a shade-holder, .a securing device comprising a collar formed with an in wardly extending annular flange and including a movable section having one end detachably secured to said collar, and yielding means secured to said collar and normally extending inwardly toward the axis of the latter, a distance greater than that to which said flange extends.

5. In a shade-holder, a securing device comprising two sections forming a collar having two of their adjacent ends hinged to each other and the other two ends detachably secured to veach other, and a bell detachably secured to said collar to support it. 7

6. In a shade-holder, a securing device comprising two sections forming a collar having two of their adjacent ends hinged to each other and the other two ends detachably secured to each other, each such section formed with an inwardly projecting flange, and a spring secured to the inside of each collar section and normally projecting beyond the corresponding flange-section.

7. In a shade-holder, a device for secur ing the shade comprising two separable sections forming a collar, inwardly extending projections on the ends of one section, and means on the ends of the other section engaging the projections.

S. In a shade-holder, a device for securing the shade comprising two sections forming a collar, each two of the adjacent section-ends being formed respectively with inwardly extending projections and resiliently supported interlocking apertures, all of the projections being formed upon one of said sections and all of the apertures being formed upon the other of said sections.

9. In a shade-holder, a collar formed of two sections of thin sheet metal having adjacent ends detachably connected, the direction of detachment being radial and formed with an outwardly extending projection in the vicinity of one of said detachable ends, and a bell having an inwardly projecting flange surrounding said collar and adapted to en 'age said projection.

10. In a shade-holder, a collar formed of two sections of thin sheet metal having adj acent ends detachably connected, the direction of detachment being radial and formed with an outwardly extending projection in the vicinity of one of said detachable ends, each section being formed with an additional and similar projection, and a hell having an inwardly projecting flange surrounding said collar and adapted to engage said projections.

11. The combination of a shade having a contracted neck-portion, a collar formed with an inwardly projecting flange whose inner diameter is greater than the diameter of said neck-portion, said collar being formed of two sections, two of the adjacent ends of said sections being attached to each other and the other two adjacent ends of which are detachably secured to each other, and springs mounted on said collar and bearing against said contracted neck-portion.

12. The combination with a shade havin a contracted neck-portion, of a collar formed with an inwardly projecting flange whose inner diameter is greater than the diameter of said neck -'portion, said collar being formed with two sections, two of whose adjacent ends are attached to each other and the other two of whose adjacent ends are detachably secured to each other.

13. In a shade-holder, a resilient device for bearing against a shade, separable means for clasping the resilient device in place, and means for detachably supporting the separable means.

14:. In a shade-holder, a device which may be closed about a shade to hold it, resilient means within the device engaging the shade, means for holding the device closed, and means for supporting the device.

15. In a shade-holder, a device which may be closed about a shade to hold it, resilient means within the device engaging the shade, and means for supporting the device.

16. In ashade-holder, a device which may be closed about a shade to hold it, resilient means within the device engaging the shade, and means for holding the device closed and supporting it.

17. In a shade-holder, a resilient device for bearing against the shade, separable means for clasping the resilient device in place, means for holding the separable mean closed, and means for supporting the separable means.

Signed at Cleveland, this 29 day of May,

ROBERT S. AS'PINWALL. Witnesses:

KARL FENNING, FLORINE EVANS.

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